Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

by Susan Reynolds

Book Overview

Fiefs and Vassals is a book that will change our view of the medieval world. Offering a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism, Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of fiefs and vassalage that have been central to the understanding of medieval society for hundreds of years are in fact based on a misunderstanding of the primary sources.
Reynolds demonstrates convincingly that the ideas of fiefs and vassalage as currently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198206488
• ISBN13: 9780198206484
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 556 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 10.0"